Microsoft to launch their own version of BitTorrent

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Microsoft to launch their own version of BitTorrent
by Derek Sooman on Mon 20 Jun 2005, 09:39 AM
Always keen to knock off someone else's ideas and then
sink a huge amount of money into becoming the new standard
in that area, Microsoft have set their sights on
challenging BitTorrent. The company have promised to
release an alternative to the P2P file-sharing network,
called Avalanche. The new software is currently being
developed in Cambridge, UK, and will include a
new 'publisher certificate' solution which utilises DRM to
ensure that only legal content is shared.

http://www.techspot.com/news/17873-Microsoft-to-launch-
their-own-version-of-BitTorrent.html

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Interesting. They've had a peer-to-peer app for years now.

The underpinnings have been available for XPSP1 (advanced networking pack)
and included in XPSP2.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/p2pintro.mspx

 

[Ron Chamberlin]

When it says Cambridge that usually means in the Research Labs there.
Doesn't guarantee that it will ever hit the streets as a real product.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP
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